New member from Cornwall, UK

[tom_benn]

Hi, I'm Tom and I'm a final year mature student at the Arts University Plymouth, UK. I am new to metal shaping as a means to work with sheet metal for sculpture. I've had a few days training with Geoff Moss at MPH Motor Panels and the metal department at the univeristy has just bought an English wheel. I'm hoping to learn a lot more about metal shaping both for my current, final uni project and into the future.

[DavidB]

Hi Tom,

Welcome to the forum, you should find plenty of information here to help you on your journey in the past posts and from forum members. I see that the place is now a University, I've dealt with them on a few occasions under their previous name Plymouth College of Art. What English wheel did they buy?

I did my engineering degree across the road at Plymouth University in the late 1980s and made my English wheel wheel set at the technical college during practical workshop experience in the summer of 1988. AUP/PCA has certainly changed a lot since those days.

Dave

[tom_benn]

Thanks Dave

The wheel is a floor standing one from Trent Precision Engineering. Low cost but seems ok, especially considering the price.

I imagine a lot has changed here since the 80s! The facilities and staff are great, although there's limited expertise with metal shaping, especially using the wheel. Do you by any chance know of anyone in Plymouth who uses one?

Tom